The Boryeong area has been famous for producing excellent stones called Nampo Oseok since ancient times.

Nampo Oseok was used as a monument to preserve writing for a long time due to its good stone quality, and about half of the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty were made of Nampo Oseok, and today the president's tombstone also used Nampo Oseok. As a result, the stone industry was developed more than anywhere else in Boryeong, and excellent stone burials were found.

Currently, there are many stone statues in the Boryeong area, including Goseoksan Mountain (1955~ ) from Ungcheon, Boryeong, which is an excellent stonesmith in Boryeong, and produces many excellent stone crafts, including statues of Buddha, and was designated as an intangible cultural asset.

Goseoksan Mountain, which was first introduced as a stone craftsman in 1968 with Jeong Jong-seop as a teacher, has a splendid history of winning the best sculpture award at an exhibition of Buddhist art, winning a prize in the stone crafts section of a national functional competition, selecting a master of Korean stone crafts, and designating a cultural heritage repair technician.

The blind people's reading of Buddhist scriptures is a traditional rite of communication aimed at wishing good fortune or treating diseases by reading various epigrams such as Okchugyeong.

This type of reading was distributed throughout the country until the early 20th century, but now it has declined rapidly, and is being conducted by some taesa (referring to those who profess in the blind world) centered around Seoul.

During the Joseon Dynasty, shamans were not allowed to live inside the four gates of Seoul, only outside the capital city of Gutdo, and monks were prohibited from entering the capital. However, the rite was held until the late 17th century as a national holiday ritual for blind people, and it continued to be a representative rite for the royal court, aristocrats, and the private sector.

This fact is known as "Sangdal" in Liu Man Gong's "Sesi Pungyo (1843), which contains the typical seasonal customs of Seoul. This month, many people in the private houses memorize eyeglasses to get rid of the disaster. In "The Age of the East" (1849) by Hong Seok-mo, I stayed up all night reading Ahn Taek-kyung even before the fifteenth of lunar January. That's why I wish for good luck. Continue until this month is over. It can also be checked through records such as this.

Chae Soo-ok was recognized as the holder on January 5, 2017, and the group was the Seoul branch of the Korea Society for the Blind.

※For more information on the above cultural assets, please contact the Seoul Metropolitan Government Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage (☎02-2133-2616).

☆Pyeongtaek Folk Song was designated as a cultural asset by combining labor songs handed down in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

Since Pyeongtaek is adjacent to the west coast and includes a wide range of farmland, the three folk songs used for rice paddies, sea songs, and funeral ceremonies are combined to pass down the tradition.

As for farmer's song(nongyo) 'Sangsasori' is widely sung in southern Gyeonggi Province when planting rice seedlings.